gateau
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gateau
Rhymes with -ætəʊ, -əʊ
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Borrowed from French gâteau. Doublet of wastel.
noun gateaux · gateaus · gâteau
- A rich, usually iced, cake. Determined on keeping up my strength for what the night might bring, I ate heartily—enjoying every morsel, especially of the two slices of gateau I didn’t feel it wrong to take as my share, since there was still one good-sized piece left for Judy.
- A dish of minced meat made up like a pudding, and boiled in a shape or mould. a gateau of veal
